need repair than a new one superseding it has been invented. The Soviet economy, in contrast, did not stress innovation, by … future?" This book is a detailed study of the role of innovation in Soviet industry. While focusing on this specific factor … within the socialist economic structure, then examines their individual effects on the overall process of innovation. With …

significant advances in understanding the determinants and consequences of innovation, until recently they have paid little … attention to how innovation functions as an economic process. This book examines the nature and workings of markets for …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …